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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: const comparison in C and C++
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Date: 15 Sep 88 12:06:19 GMT
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In article <709@paris.ICS.UCI.EDU> schmidt@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:
>I'm interested to know the conceptual
>differences between the two languages on this point.

Essentially, C++ "const" means "constant"; ANSI C "const" means "readonly".